vi, 234 p. : 26 cm

"American films, like America itself, have long been fascinated by the threat of outsiders posing as citizens to destroy the American way of life. This book tracks real-world fears appearing in the movies and shows how these issues, and others, played out on screen"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-214), index and filmography

German fifth columns: the Hun, the Third Reich and the rise of the Fourth Reich -- The yellow peril and the fear of Japan -- The red menace: Bolsheviks, commies and atheists in America -- Red scare: Fifth column anticommunist films from 1949 to 1960 -- Communist fifth columnists after 1960 -- Muslim fifth columns in America -- Invasion of the body snatchers -- Brain eaters, human duplicators and other science fictional fifth columns -- Invaders, X-files and dynamators: alien fifth columns on television -- Sexual politics and the war between men and women -- The master race -- Satanic and supernatural infiltration in film and television -- Miscellanea: corporate takeovers, secret societies and the JFK assassination -- Appendix 1: film credits -- Appendix 2: television series credits and synopses

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